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5.10.2021
21.6.2021
Henderson-Massey Local Board has agreed to its work programme for the financial year 2021-22, committing to funding projects that benefit the community across a variety of areas including the environment, culture and community assets.
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18.11.2021
He also played a critical role in the development and funding of Forsyth Barr Stadium and the Edgar Sports Centre in Dunedin – the largest single-building indoor sports arena in the Southern Hemisphere.
11.6.2021
Earlier this year, students Miah Watson, Sivera Peneha and Erika McKee set up Maka, the name they have given their business, to teach more Kiwis te reo Maori.
10.6.2021
The group is taking part in the annual nationwide YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) programme, which gives young entrepreneurs, as part of their level two economics course, the opportunity to start and run their own businesses.
Participants in the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES), a programme where students learn about aspects of business through running their own small enterprise, met with Kuriger as she sponsors the Enhancing Rural Communities Award.
The group of six Year 13 students are participating in the Young Enterprise Scheme, which encourages students to work in groups to create a product and come up with a business plan to produce and sell it.
31.5.2021
The national Young Enterprise Scheme marked its 40th anniversary recently with a celebration held at Te Papa in Wellington.
24.5.2021
The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) is an opportunity for students to unleash their inner entrepreneur and experience the start-up world first-hand.
"I was always trying to hustle some cash somehow or somewhere."
14.5.2021
Accountant Jamie Reidie has been appointed the Dunedin City Council representative on the Start-up Dunedin board.
29.4.2021
RAD is urgently seeking donations of second-hand laptops and funds to meet growing community need
18.2.2021
More calls this morning to teach kids some real world skills in school.
22.1.2021
YES Kaiārahi ako / Teaching mentors 2021
13.1.2021
A team of student entrepreneurs whose eco-friendly lip balm is available from 18 Canterbury retailers are using their prize-winnings at the national Young Enterprise Scheme awards to expand into the rest of the South Island.
12.1.2021
With a background built on his Samoan and Tokelauan values and morals, and faith encouraged by the Catholic church and his parents, 17-year-old Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Malaga Aukusotino mixes service with leadership and entrepreneurship.
11.1.2021
Eighteen-year-old Sam Wixon has been hard at work for the past two years developing a sustainable alternative as part of his school business programme.
16.12.2020
Zit-face has become an obsolete insult at Bayfield High School.
14.12.2020
Pakuranga College students have been awarded The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Company of the Year for their SLIC NZ (Sign Language Interactive Cards). The company was awarded $3000, as well as a $5000 scholarship for each company member to the Massey University Business School. Their school will also receive $2000.
Bishop Viard College company The Hustle has claimed the National Excellence Business Award for Pasifika Business at last week’s Lion Foundation YES National Awards 2020, staged at Te Papa Tongarewa.
30.10.2020
Young Enterprise Scheme Regional Champions announced
15.10.2020
The long running Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme has historically been the starting point for a number of innovative new business ideas.
5.10.2020
Did you know many of our YES students continue their business beyond the YES year?
8.9.2020
Matt Billington is very familiar with The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme, participating in the scheme for 3 consecutive years across 2015, 2016, and 2017.
4.8.2020
Anna Campbell participated in The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme in both 2009 and 2010 at Southland Girls' High School where her YES companies created Teal bows and women's underwear raising awareness for cervical cancer and Unfolding cubes promoting the beautiful Southland region.
8.4.2020
Find out what's happening in the eco-system this week:
28.11.2019
The Young Enterprise (YES) Alumni Awards celebrate the achievements of an estimated 75,000 students who have completed the Young Enterprise Scheme where students work in teams to create and run a small business for a year.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of people gathered at the TSB arena to celebrate the achievements of New Zealand’s most outstanding young entrepreneurs.
4.11.2019
The reusable jute bag designed by three young high school entrepreneurs has won them an award in The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) company of the year national finals, but they are unsure which one it is.
1.11.2019
A student from Hiwa i Te Rangi (the Northland College School for Young Parents) has won the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme's Top Energy YES Northland Company of the Year title.
30.10.2019
Throughout this trip I have learnt and gained so much experience that will not only help me in Business, but in my personal life.
Similar to entering a new market, entering a new country is very much the same.
The moment when Team Uprise Digital was announced as the winners of EIA weekend 2019 was one of exhilaration for our whole team, because all our hard work had paid off.
Over the trip, I feel my cultural knowledge of the region and really just the world in general.
Over the past seven days in Chile, I have learnt so much about the culture and the Chilean way of doing business from the jam-packed week of business meetings and activities.
I could sit in a class for a year straight, and only learn a fraction of what I experienced in Chile.
Thinking back on my time in Chile the most significant aspects that come to mind are, the friendly people, the personal business relationship and the importance of international networking.
Ever since my group from EIA won the trip to Chile I couldn’t wait to go.
12.9.2019
A group of Gisborne Girls’ High School students got to learn from the best ahead of the next Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) challenge.
5.9.2019
Several teams of Young Enterprise Scheme participants have put their products to the test at Nelson Market.
4.9.2019
A trip to Thailand next month will set up three young entrepreneurs for a successful career in business.
3.9.2019
Three teams of young South Canterbury entrepreneurs have spent months researching their products, and refining their business plans, and now it's time to get selling.
30.8.2019
There were wheat bags, scented candles, book art and plant holders at the Hāwera High School trade fair.
29.8.2019
Kaitaia students taking part in this year's Young Enterprise Scheme have come up with a technological innovation they say could save ratepayers large sums of money.
An invitation to attend the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame gala dinner as a student escort was an opportunity not to be missed for Year 13 student, Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) entrant and emerging businessman George Matheson.
31.7.2019
Where do I even start? The seven days we spent in Argentina were incredible. I met so many amazing people with fantastic stories.
On Sunday the 14th of July, 8 New Zealand students traveled from all over the country to meet at Auckland International Airport to embark on a trip of a lifetime.
To say that my time in Argentina was unforgettable would be an understatement.
On the 14th of July 2019 I set out on the journey of a lifetime, a trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Leaving home in the sunny HB, I was unprepared, I didn’t know what I had got myself into with this big trip, packing my bags an hour before leaving to the airport and having to turn around because I forgot my laptop.
30.7.2019
On July 14th I embarked on the life-changing ‘Entrepreneurs in Argentina’ program.
